Luyện nghe bài hát A Song for Assata

(Common)
In the of God.
In the of the Ancestors.
In the of the Black Panthers.
In the Spirit of Shakur.
We make this movement freedom
for all those who been oppressed, and all those in the struggle.
Yeah. yo, it-

There were lights and sirens, gunshots
Cover your eyes as I a scene so violent
Seemed like a bad dream, she laid in a blood
Blood bubbled in her chest, cold air against open flesh
No to rest, pain consumed each breath
Shot twice wit her up
Police questioned but shot before she
One lost his life, the other ran for his
Scandalous the police were as they kicked and her
Comprehension she was beyond, hold on
to life. She thought live with no arm
that's it felt like, got to the hospital, eyes held tight
They moved her room to room-she could by the light
Handcuffed tight to the bed, her skin it bit
Put guns to her head, word she got hit
"Who shot the trooper?" asked her
Put in her eyes, threatened to blast her
Her mind raced till got still
Opened her eyes, realized next to her best friend who got killed
She got chills, they told her: that's where she would be
mixed wit anger-survival was a reflex
They and denied visits from her lawyer
But she was buildin as they tried to her
If it wasn't for this nurse they woulda served her worse
I read this sister's story, that it deserved a verse
I wonder what would happen if that woulda me?
All this so we could be free, so dig it, y'all.

(Cee-lo vocals)
I'm of Assata, yes.
to my Love, Assata, yes.
Your Power and is beautiful.
May God your Soul.

(Common)
It seemed like the middle of the when the law awakened her
Walkie-talkies cracklin, I see 'em when they her
she kinda knew,
What made the ride peaceful was the trees and the sky was
Arrived to Middlesex Prison six inna morning
Uneasy as they pushed her to the floor in
a cell, one cot, no window, hell.
Put in the of a prison wit all males
And the of misery, seatless toilets and centipedes
She'd exercise, (paint?,) and to read
Two years inna hole. Her soul weak
Away people so long she forgot how to speak
She discovered is a unspoken sound
And a wall is a wall and can be broken
Found peace in the Panthers she went on with
One of the brothers she had a child
The they would feed her, hopin she's lose her seed
Held tight, knowing the fight would live this seed
In need of a doctor, from her she's bleed
Out of situation a girl was conceived
Separated from her, left to the Revolution
And lactated to hate
Cause and state was built for a Black fate
Her emptiness was filled with and court dates
fabricated cases, hoping one would stick
And said she robbed places that exist
In the midst of threats on her life and being caged with Aryan
Through halls of hate she carried the light
I wonder what would happen if that woulda me?
All of shit so we could be free.
Yeah, I often wonder what would happen if that woulda me?
All of this shit so we could be free, so dig it,

(Cee-Lo)
I'm of Assata, yeah.
to my Love, Assata, yeah.
Your and Pride, so Beautiful...
May God your Soul.
Oooh.

(Common)
Yo
From Carolina her grandmother would bring
that she had had a dream
Her dreams always meant they needed them to mean
made them real was the action in between
She dreamt that Assata was free in old house in Queens
The fact that they always true was the thing
Assata had been of a murder she couldna done
Medical shown she couldna shot the gun
It's time for her to see the sun from the other
Time for her to be by her mother's side
Time for this Beautiful to become soft again
Time for her to breathe, and not be told how or
She the chains and escaped the pain
How she broke out of prison I never explain
And to this day they try to get to her
but she's free political asylum in Cuba.

(Cee-Lo vocals)
I'm of Assata, yeah.
to my Love, Assata, yeah.
We're molded from the mud, Assata.
We the same Blood, Assata, yeah.
Power and Pride, so Beautiful...
May God your Soul.
Your and Pride, so Beautiful...
May God your Soul.
Oooh.

(Assata)
Freedom! You askin me about freedom. Askin me about
I'll be honest with you. I know a whole more what freedom isn't
than about it is, cause I've never been free.
I can share my vision with you of the future, about what freedom is.
Uhh, the way I see it, freedom is the right to grow, is the right to
blossom.
is -is the right to be yourself, to be who you are,
to be who you wanna be, to do you wanna do. (fade out)